(Cameron Crotty) Data Management magazine published a special report on migration from Oracle to DB2 9.7 environments last year. After the publication of this story, many organizations performed their own migrations and reported their experiences to IBM, to industry analysts, and to the trade press.
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War Story
War Story I’m not sure how universal the term “War Story” may be, but this term is used to describe a painful event experienced in the life of an IT professional. It may be related to infrastructure, processes, software development, product management, software development lifecycles, etc. The value of a "war story" is that it provides real life experiences substantiating […]
Learn about IBM Performance Management Solutions via a Free Webinar
(Susan Visser) Next Thursday (November 10th, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern), you can attend a free webinar that will teach you about the performance management and optimization solutions that are available from IBM. You’ll learn about:
MySQL 101 – Replication
(Adam Donnison) So far we’ve looked at many aspects of MySQL, not in any great depth, but hopefully with enough information to get you started and whet your appetite for more. Now we start to look into areas that aren’t in the basic tutorials.
Build a Blog Page Consuming a XML Feed
(Just Glowing) In this article, I’ll show a code snippet I made in order to create a small blog using the web feed provided by another blog engine.
Using Bind Variables
(Lewis Cunningham) Ok, I know you you’ve heard of them. Heck, in some cases, you’ve been beaten over the head with them. So why aren’t you using them?
List<'T> Methods in FSharp
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Simplified process to move all SQL Server system databases at one time
(Greg Robidoux) One task that you may need to do as a DBA is to move the system databases from one location to another. The documentation that is found on the Microsoft site is helpful, but the steps are more geared toward moving one database at a time. In this tip we look at a streamlined process
IOD Dispatch (3) – Gleanings from the DB2 for z/OS ‘Coffee Track’
(Robert Catterall) IBM’s 2011 Information on Demand conference took place last week in Las Vegas. I attended a number of the event’s technical sessions, and summarized what I heard in some of those sessions in a couple of entries posted to this blog.
Why you should never create own objects under SYS
(Dirk Nachbar) I got many times the request by developers to create objects under the SYS schema and my comment is normally “NO”. Here is a nice showcase, why the creation of own objects under the SYS schema can become really dangerous: